Thing 17

The Delicious website can be good for trying to find different ideas and research quickly. When I typed in educational technologies, lots of different websites and ideas came up. I clicked on a couple and I saw ideas for teachers in the classroom. There were also ideas for activities for students to do in the classroom. When I clicked on the Classroom 2.0 website, there were places where teachers could blog about different issues. It helps teachers with teaching technology in the classroom. Another one I clicked on was the techlearning.com where it had more ideas for using technology in the classroom. I think that Delicious can be used in the classroom because it would be a way for students to incorporate technology in the classroom and they can research different topics.

Thing 16

The start page that I decided to use was the ustart.org. I thought it was pretty cool being able to create a page and putting whatever you would like on it. You can put anything from the weather to Facebook to TV shows on your page. This one appealed to me the most because I like the layout and the freedom to create whatever you want. I would make this my home page because it describes me and things that I like to do. Online calenders can be useful in many ways such as keeping up with appointments, knowing when events are coming up and also being able to decorate them however you want. Some tools that I would recommend to use in the classroom are Zamzar or Pdfconverter. These would be good for converting a document or even concerting Mp3 and Mp4 files. This is a good technology for students to use to teach them about different options they would have.

Thing 15

I decided to post my Thing 9 on the apsu23thingssandbox. I enjoyed creating the online generator. It would be fun for the students in the classroom to be creative while they are learning. I added an entry and changed the font, size and color of my post. I like using wiki and websites such as wikipedia. I have been taught that Wikipedia was not a reliable source because anybody can just put information on their whether it is true or not.

Thing 14

Being able to create a flowchart would be a great tool to use in a classroom. Flowcharts are different ways for students to understand a concept, especially in English. I went to flowchart.com and created a simple flow chart about the "Three Little Pigs". I felt that it was challenging for me to use this website and it would probably be challenging for my students, especially since I will be teaching special education. I also tried the bubbl.us brainstorming map and I like creating this. This would be good to use for story maps or brainstorming for a paper.

Thing 13

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1giycXFGaQlM6-piqEqKlVcW7Vxv7qKXq9302FUoKKlY/pub

I like the Google Drive feature. This can be used in the classroom because it is just like the Microsoft Office collection. The teacher or school would not have to pay for the Microsoft Office collection, they could just use Google Drive. There is a feature for documents, spreadsheets, PowerPoint, and drawings. This is also good because it automatically saves in the Google Drive so you would not need a flash drive to save your work. Zoho also looks like it could be good, but to me it seems more for business people and not students. Even when you go to the website, it tells you it is a business site. I would rather use Google Drive because it seems easier to use and it would be better for students to use in the classroom.

Thing 12

Everyone knows what Google is but I did not know that Google had so many things that it can do. The first link I explored was the Google books. I love to read and so this was obviously one of my choices. All you have to do is type in a title or author of a book and it pops up with a description and how you can get the book either by eBook, sending it through the mail or finding it at a library. This can be used for education purposes because a student can look up a book that they need or at least find some information about the book. This can also be helpful for college students when they are buying their books for school.

The other link that I looked at for Google was the Google translator. All you have to do is type in anything in the box, then you can translate it to any kind of language. The example I used was English to French. This is good for students because if they are in a foreign language class, then this can help them with translating. It could also help students who are ELL because they can translate phrases into their native language to understand better.

https://translate.google.com/#en/fr/Hello%2C%20my%20name%20is%20Heather%20and%20I%20go%20to%20Austin%20Peay%20State%20University.

Thing 11

Me personally, I found it easiest to use the blog search engine.org and the edublog to help me find different blogs and feeds. With the blog search engine all I had to do was type in any subject it gave me plenty of options to choose from. The Edublog has all kinds of blogs to use for education. I liked looking up the teacher blogs. Seeing what they post on their blogs helps me to see that teachers are just regular people who make mistakes. Nobody's perfect. I didn't find any blogs that were confusing for me but with the Technorati feed I didn't like how you had to create an account to use it. I just want to search without having to do that. One of the main and useful feeds is Google and Yahoo. Google had always been my number one search engine. While browsing the cooking section, I did run into some interesting dishes such as pork shoulder soup. For the most part, I found several different ways to search for feeds based on interests.